CSU Budget & Finances

Find summaries and analyses of the CSU budget and finances on this page. We post reports and data about the CSU budget and share links where additional information is published by the CSU administration and the government.

CSU executives say faculty salaries must compete for dollars with the university’s infrastructure needs. But buildings, modernization and much more can—and should—be funded in ways that do not interfere with support for quality instruction. We are talking bonds. Read on…

While budgets show the way an institution or organization plans to spend its resources, an analysis of an institution’s actual expenditures is a better way to learn about priorities. It is sometimes more difficult to obtain spending data than budget data, but a university’s audited financial statements provide expenditure data.